[CQ-Contest] 4O3A Station rebuild

[john at kk9a.com]

4O3A is considering horizontally stacking 2el beams for a target area. I
believe NN1N has a similar array using 2el shorty 40's aimed at Europe.
There are many contest stations in South America using H frames and large
10m Yagis that have big contest scores. ES5TV's extreme 15m array with
four stacked H frames may be too narrow but only he can comment.  I have
not modeled horizontal stacking however when comparing long boom beams to
shorter ones, typically the larger beam still has more gain outside its
3dB beamwidth. The beam patterns really need to be studied instead of just
looking at beamwidth numbers.

John KK9A



K4XS Wrote

I believe horizontal stacking narrows the beamwidth, something most
contesters don't want.